Muckle vs Wad - What's the difference?
muckle | wad |
(chiefly, Scotland) A great amount.
(archaic, outside, Northumbria, and, Scotland) Large, massive.
* , song A Pair o Nicky-tams :
(archaic, outside, Northumbria, and, Scotland) Much.
(US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
* {{quote-book, 1954, Elizabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day
, passage= And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts?}}
* {{quote-book, 2002, William G. Wilkoff, The Maternity Leave Breastfeeding Plan, isbn=0743213459
, passage=Another technique for the baby who is having trouble muckling on involves a breast or nipple shield.}}
* {{quote-book, 2004, William J. Vande Kopple, The Catch: Families, Fishing, and Faith, page=18, isbn=0802826776
, passage=When an exhausted sucker is hauled to the top of The Wall, usually its muckling circle of a mouth goes into a frenzied sucking spasm.}}
(rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.
* {{quote-book, 1896, ,
, passage=I told him all, / Both bad and good; / I bade him call — / He said he would: / I added much — the more I muckled , / The more that chuckling chummy chuckled! }}
An amorphous, compact mass.
A substantial pile (normally of money).
A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
(slang) A sandwich.
(vulgar, slang) An ejaculate of semen.
(mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
(Ulster) To wager.
To insert or force a wad into.
To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
As nouns the difference between muckle and wad
is that muckle is (chiefly|scotland) a great amount while wad is an amorphous, compact mass.As verbs the difference between muckle and wad
is that muckle is (us|dialectal) to latch onto something with the mouth while wad is to crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.As an adjective muckle
is (archaic|outside|northumbria|and|scotland) large, massive.muckle
English
Noun
(-)Derived terms
* many a mickle makes a muckleAdjective
(en adjective)- She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam,
An' tells me ilka nicht that she admires my Nicky Tams.
Verb
(muckl)citation
citation
citation
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, year_published=1941
Synonyms
* (to talk big) mickleReferences
* * * Geordie Englishwad
English
(wikipedia wad)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
- With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan
Derived terms
* (ejaculate) blow one's wad, shoot one's wadSee also
* (Wad)Verb
(wadd)- She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
- to wad a gun
- to wad a cloak
